Valve Gears and Indicators: A Manual of Practical Instruction in Valve-Setting, Use of Indicators, and Other Details of Steam Engine Operation Essential to Efficiency and Economy (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Leland, Walter Swift

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0484079778 ISBN 13: 9780484079778

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Valve Gears and Indicators: A Manual of Practical Instruction in Valve-Setting, Use of Indicators, and Other Details of Steam Engine Operation Essential to Efficiency and Economy

Determination of Indicated horse-power - Mechanical Efficiency Steam distribution-mean Effective Pressure - Piston Speed - Table of Engine Constants - Brake horse-power - Prony Brake - Rope Brake Finding Area of Cards - Planimeter - Thermal Efficiency - Theoretical Indicator Diagram - Atmospheric Lineé - Admission Line - Steam Line Point of cut-off - Expansion Curve - Point of Release - Exhaust Line back-pressure Line - Point of Exhaust Closure - Compression Curve Zero Line - Clearance Line - Drawing the Theoretical Card - Cards for Compound Engines - Combined Diagrams - horse-power of Compound Engines - Defects Revealed by Card (events Too Early or Too Late, Unequal Work at Cylinder Ends, etc.) - Steam Consumption.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0484079778
• ISBN 13: 9780484079778
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 146
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